best failed gaming system

[Stankfoot]

My son bought some old gaming systems recently at garage sales and we've been having a blast playing them. Some I don't even remember or I remember failing miserably

I really like Sega Dreamcast. Anybody still play any of these or other systems that didn't sell?


SEGA DREAMCAST
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/stankfoot/Dreamcast.png


3DO
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/stankfoot/3DO.jpg


ATARI JAGUAR
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/stankfoot/Atari_Jaguar.jpg



SEGA SATURN
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/stankfoot/Saturn.jpg

[underdog]

Neo-Geo

[IamFogHat]

The Jaguar was hideous, I played it recently, it's as bad as Virtual Boy.
I have heard good things about the Dream Cast though.

[BlackSpider]

anybody know where I can get a Game Genie for my PSP...?

[sailor]

if lleeder has these his yard sale wouldn't have sucked so bad.

[TooLowBrow]

dreamcast

[jauble]

WOPR

Lock it mikey.

[MacVittie]

Neo Geo. This thing cost $600 in 1990.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Neogeoaes.jpg

[Syl]

Dreamcast easily wins this one. I still load up Crazy Taxi every now and then.

[lleeder]

if lleeder has these his yard sale wouldn't have sucked so bad.

Actually I sold my Panasonic 3DO a few years ago for 100 dollars with 20 games on ebay.

[sailor]

Actually I sold my Panasonic 3DO a few years ago for 100 dollars with 20 games on ebay.

and no sitting in the cold.

[Judge Smails]

My first gaming system: Intellivision. FTW! Check out that snazzy simulated wood grain awesomeness.

http://www.1000bit.net/lista/dati/mattel/intellivision.jpg

[JustJon]

At a time when all the other video games were 8 and 16 bit, Neo Geo put out an arcade quality console. $600 for the console, $200 each game.

But I still think the Dreamcast was a great system.

[JimBeam]

I seem to remember a game system from Bally way back aroud the Atari 2600 and ColecoVision days.

If I remember correctly it had a lot of games that were arcade games at the time.

[AnnoyedGrunt]

I bought a 3DO a few months ago. It's not a terrible system (much better than the Sega CD) but it was essentially a 486 or a first generation Pentium in console form. For some reason the boxes for the games are as high as 2 CD jewel cases for no reason at all. It had some good games, but not much you couldn't have bought for your computer.

[furie]

WOPR

Lock it mikey.

Ok, that was a great line.

a truly terrible system was Sega CD. not only was the system bad, but the games were shit

[Snoogans]

Ok, that was a great line.

a truly terrible system was Sega CD. not only was the system bad, but the games were shit

i see your sega cd and raise you 32x. Which had like 4 games....THAT WERE THE EXACT SAME THING

[TheMojoPin]

I really liked the Turbo Graphix-16. Bonk FTW!

The Sega Master System FTL.

[Don Stugots]

sega saturn sucked ass.

[BlackSpider]

no love for the Commodore...?
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/spidescorp/Commodore64_350px.jpg

[AnnoyedGrunt]

I really liked the Turbo Graphix-16. Bonk FTW!

The Sega Master System FTL.

The funny thing is that when you look back the Master System was probably a better machine than the NES. The problem is that the NES beat them out 5:1 when it came to good games.

[donnie_darko]

dreamcast!
if you ever read the history of sega, how they lost to the ps1 is a pretty interesting read.

[STC-Dub]

[QUOTE=BlackSpider;1958896]no love for the Commodore...?
QUOTE]

Well, it was supposed to be a computer just like the TI I had that did have some -- err one -- decent game.

[cougarjake13]

dreamcast!
if you ever read the history of sega, how they lost to the ps1 is a pretty interesting read.

any links

im interested in reading that



i was torn at the time on whether or not to get the dreamcast or the ps one


i had the orig nes then the next system i had was sega genesis so i was gonna stay in the sega line, esp since dreamcast was trying to do the online thing

better game selection for the ps one is what led me to buying that system

[sailor]

no love for the Commodore...?
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r221/spidescorp/Commodore64_350px.jpg

i only had a vic 20

[Doogie]

I seem to remember a game system from Bally way back aroud the Atari 2600 and ColecoVision days.

If I remember correctly it had a lot of games that were arcade games at the time.

It was called the Bally Astrocade. The article is here: http://gamingmuseum.classicgaming.gamespy.com/bally.html

And I vote for the Sega Saturn. Sega shot themselves in the foot by releasing the 32x and the CD before the Saturn. There were some pretty good games for the Saturn too...Iron Storm (A WWII RPG game) and Dragon Force.

[biozombie]

I still kind of want one of those Nintendo VirtualBoy things, despite the weird size & lack of games, that 3d Tennis game was kind of cool.

[Epschtein]

i still remember when the kids across the street from us were the first people to get a pong game! there was seriously a crowd of people in their driveway waiting to check it out lol.

we used to stay up late begging to play one more game, of pong. wtf?

the first time i saw a space invaders game i think i actually got wood.

[ThePointer]

hoe about this one? I sill have it and it works

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j288/thepointer/consoles_025.jpg

[Fallon]

I bought the Sega CD and 32X.

I was a dumb kid.

[patsopinion]

I bought the Sega CD and 32X.

I was a dumb kid.

i had 32X aslo

and a dreamcast


i was always convinced that sega was going to be the standard

[donnie_darko]

you tube history of sega

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3NfgF08EQE

this is a great read if you tube isn't your thing

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/sega-genesis-turns-20.ars

[Lawson]

Fairchild Chanel F
This thing came out in 1975 or 1976. It was the first game to use cartridges, way ahead of it's time. It had absolutely crazy controllers. they twisted, tilted, pulled up, pushed down... crazy, and they broke all the time, but I played the crap out of it.

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t291/MrLawsonsPics/channel_f.gif

[Dougie]

Dreamcast hands down. It's the first thing I thought of when I read the thread title. I still have mine and about 200 games. Gotta fire it up one day to see if it still works.
Bass Fishing ownz joo!!!

[JustJon]

It was called the Bally Astrocade. The article is here: http://gamingmuseum.classicgaming.gamespy.com/bally.html

And I vote for the Sega Saturn. Sega shot themselves in the foot by releasing the 32x and the CD before the Saturn. There were some pretty good games for the Saturn too...Iron Storm (A WWII RPG game) and Dragon Force.

Sega Saturn had dead on ports of the Capcom arcade games at a time when Street Fighter 2 was king.

I still kind of want one of those Nintendo VirtualBoy things, despite the weird size & lack of games, that 3d Tennis game was kind of cool.

I have a Virtual Boy. It really is a fun system.

[Fezticle98]

Jaguar seemed cool, but I never played it.

Sega Game Gear was pretty successful I guess, so you can't include that. Always wanted one of those.

[EddieMoscone]

Dreamcast easily wins this one. I still load up Crazy Taxi every now and then.


Dreamcast was great for Crazy Taxi, plus Virtua Tennis and Street Fighters Games. My roomate had the arcade joystck set up, which was really cool.

http://www.segagagadomain.com/hardware/dc-arcadestick-f.jpg

I got a Saturn just so I could play my Japanese Import of Fire Pro Wrestling...the best wrestling game ever.

[angrymissy]

Dreamcast easily wins this one. I still load up Crazy Taxi every now and then.

Yessss! Dreamcast was the shit back then. Crazy Taxi ftw. Remember that little thing w/ the screen that went into the controller? Weren't you supposed to be able to play games on it or something?

[Death Metal Moe]

http://www.thosewerethedays.de/items/hardware/sega/game_gear/game_gear3.jpg

[JimBeam]

Pointer was you pic of the Odyssey2 ?

I was gonna post that I sort of remembered that one.

[JustJon]

Dreamcast was great for Crazy Taxi, plus Virtua Tennis and Street Fighters Games. My roomate had the arcade joystck set up, which was really cool.

http://www.segagagadomain.com/hardware/dc-arcadestick-f.jpg

I got a Saturn just so I could play my Japanese Import of Fire Pro Wrestling...the best wrestling game ever.

I bought that to play fighting games on the Dreamcast.

Yessss! Dreamcast was the shit back then. Crazy Taxi ftw. Remember that little thing w/ the screen that went into the controller? Weren't you supposed to be able to play games on it or something?

Yeah, the memory card had a little lcd and you could play little games on it. I used to raise my Chao from Sonic and play games from Power Stone on it.

[cougarjake13]

you tube history of sega

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3NfgF08EQE

this is a great read if you tube isn't your thing

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/sega-genesis-turns-20.ars



very interesting .. thanks

[NewYorkDragons80]

Actually I sold my Panasonic 3DO a few years ago for 100 dollars with 20 games on ebay.

I remember that the only store display of a 3DO machine I ever saw was at friggin A&S. As I recall, it came with a jar of caviar and a monocle.

[midwestjeff]

We had a Texas Intruments "computer" when I was a kid that had game cartridges sort of like a nintendo. Games like Munch-Man, Car Wars, Hunt the Wumpus, Adventure, A-Maz-Ing, and some others. I don't know if it failed but I have only seen one in my life.

[dryerdoor]

Game Gear.

EDIT: Didn't see Death Metal Moe put this one up. How about the Virtual Boy?

[dryerdoor]

I bought that to play fighting games on the Dreamcast.



Yeah, the memory card had a little lcd and you could play little games on it. I used to raise my Chao from Sonic and play games from Power Stone on it.

Dreamcast ruled.

Anyone remember Burning Rangers?

[Kurto2021]

here is my favorite of the failed systems
http://www.mydigitallife.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/ps3firmware150.jpg

[ElBoberino]

http://www.thosewerethedays.de/items/hardware/sega/game_gear/game_gear3.jpg

QFT!! :thumbup:

[AnnoyedGrunt]

When my cousin was 10 he was really in to his Gameboy Advance. I showed him my old Game Gear and he nearly died laughing. Not so much for the games but the fact it's as big as a brick and the 8 AA batteries it took would last an hour and a half.

[JohnnyDaytona]

I remember trading in my PS1 and all the games I had for the Dreamcast. NFL 2K was the best looking football at the time. Once I saw it at a friends house I had to get it. The online play was even pretty good. I also played Crazy Taxi and Resident Evil. We'll add the Xbox 360 to this list in 10 years. It will have been voted "Most Likely To Crap Out In Less Than A Year".


Piece

[RhinoinMN]

WOPR

Lock it mikey.

:lol:

[STC-Dub]

We had a Texas Intruments "computer" when I was a kid that had game cartridges sort of like a nintendo. Games like Munch-Man, Car Wars, Hunt the Wumpus, Adventure, A-Maz-Ing, and some others. I don't know if it failed but I have only seen one in my life.

It failed. I had one when I was a kid too and they stopped making them after like 2 years so I could no longer get the TV adapter that for some reason I had to keep replacing.

[Mullenax]

The Atari Lynx had a button you could push for "left handed" play, which would flip the display 180 degress. It was fun, lots of good little games. I inherited my brother's.<p><img src="http://www.cyberiapc.com/vgg/pics/atari_lynx2-3.jpg" height=150 width=270>

[razorboy]

The Atari Lynx had a button you could push for "left handed" play, which would flip the display 180 degress. It was fun, lots of good little games. I inherited my brother's.<p><img src="http://www.cyberiapc.com/vgg/pics/atari_lynx2-3.jpg" height=150 width=270>

I still have mine and I still use it on occasion.

[biggestmexi]

http://www.consolpassion.org/ATARI_JAGUAR.jpg

[DukeFett]

Neo-Geo

No one can call the Neo-Geo a failure, despite the insane price tag when it launched, that system lasted forever. According to wikipedia it was only discontinued in 2004, so I think by far it's the longest lasting console. You just better like fighting games haha.

My vote is also for Dreamcast btw.

[brettmojo]

http://www.thosewerethedays.de/items/hardware/sega/game_gear/game_gear3.jpg
At the time, that thing was the shiznit!

[silks]

Vectrex!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Vectrex.jpg/750px-Vectrex.jpg

[Dougie]

Vectrex!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Vectrex.jpg/750px-Vectrex.jpg

wow! you went back with that one. Bravo:clap:

[fezident]

"PIX! PIX! PIX! PIX! fuckin... PIX!"

[mikeyboy]

http://www.thosewerethedays.de/items/hardware/sega/game_gear/game_gear3.jpg

I rgot all about that. I bought that for my wife when we started dating. I need to see if I can find it next time we're at her parents' house.

Vectrex!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Vectrex.jpg/750px-Vectrex.jpg

I so wanted that when I was a kid. I saved my money and got a Colecovision instead.

[TonyStark]

Not really sure because this didn't exactly fail, but it's certainly outdated, mine is the SNES. Although as far as ones that didn't really work out well, the Virtual Boy was my favorite. The console itself sucked but it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen or used back when I played it for the first time:
http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/virtualboy.jpg

[TripleSkeet]

NFL 2K1 for Dreamcast might be the greatest football game ever.